A member of staff at a west London college visiting Parliament shortly before the Westminster terror attack says his decision to say goodbye to a friend stopped him being caught “right in the middle” of the atrocity.

David Macaskill was about to walk out of Parliament on Wednesday (March 22) afternoon when he saw a mass of people running towards him, and realised a serious situation was unfolding.

Marques Sobande-Stone, 21, Academy Boxing Student meeting Bristol North West MP and chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Boxing Charlotte Leslie at Parliament, shortly before the terror attack (Image: UGC TMS)